The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1887-12-17
INDUSTRIAL ECHOES.
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Special Correspondence 10 Tho Examiner
PHILADELPHIA, Dec, l2--Within
the past week or ten days the ranks
OF the idle army OF labor have been
sWc led by additions from the build .
iug trades and from certain lines of
nlacbil, shops labor. Employers are .
quietly suggesting among them /
selves the possibility OF reduction in /
the price OF lAoor next spring. The /
influences which favor this possibility I
are not very apparent. yet there il "A
/ telling that organized labor may find
il more difficult to keep the high
standard next Year than they have
this. Much incompetent or inferior
ltbor has been pad the highest wages
! has year and this cvli has oeon borne
with rs much grace rs posi- ple, among
the build RS. however, here Will be less
idlencss than last year. \ great
many W orkmen Will icave the New
England and Middle States for the
West and Soul to pick upa few
weeks " rk. Iu cert lin )cahtics ag-
riculturalists speak of scarcity al
farm labor because of its desire 10
seek mcdaniel employment. In the
iron trade there viii he full empl "
mcnt al steady wages. In the WIT
cru implement shops mOderrte actlN
ity viii be maintained. In the stove
industry some works turning out
popular aud attract We products Will
be Lusy through the winter, while
those Oh standard goods viii be slack
In tho mining industry rather busy
winter Is anticipated, bul the wages
question vii, stlll be an open Que in
most sections. The New E'gand
hut DWARF cstabl shments will run
moro steadily this winter tnan last,
also IN paper mjlls AVID the 81 ,ctr,c
hight establishments WI! turn out
fully halt more work than In tue
pasts"a
, The people OF Richmond propose
to hold an annual exposition OF an
, agricultural aud manufacture = char
acter. An el ,ctric street railway vii
soon be in operation there. The
People of Atlanta are Interested IN
, building belt line Dad twenty miles
, long, 10 cost 100000, which Will
, add greatly - its manufacturing adj
want ages. A railroad company build
ing n line from Kansas City to Biz
mingham, \ la, prop 50 10 build up a
big new town and call it Amony,
=, where rail Dad shops will be bull tn
employ thousand hands, and where
a largo number OF manufacturing os-
tahlshments will be put up, II the
programme, which j. u complete one.
is carried out.
Decatur, Ala promises to become
a glca manufacturing center. | Is to
; have q 100000 union depot, al i'm
mehse hotel, railroad shops to cost
S3)O,OOC and several large manufacture
( ING concerns, if they come "a they
promise ~ do.
The Heights Of Labor OF Westf0'ht,
Ma, ave in hand 100000 COM
e. pany at win erect wagon aud car
. riNge shop, al implement factory ana
a factory for canning fruits and Noge-
tables.
The demand for houses at Decatur,
Ala, is far beyond the capacity Of
builders to supply, a car wheel
works is to be built that Will turn ont
one hundred wheels per day. a Louis
- vile and Nashville company is putting
/, up the largest car construction shops
4 in the South, al that point, and have
s fiity-seven acres which they propose
% TO ut | ne for that purpose.
The Admission Land company, OF
4 abama, who bought land ten years
400 nj Sl0 ncr acre has recently sold
= zoo acres of it al $1,000 per acre, so
= southern newspapers say.
n The birmingham safe and Lock
q company has arranged tor an i'm
[ mense factory on which work VIII be
beoun January /.
II Nj nit"G o. states ENGINEERS are push
II ing me construction of locks on tn.
e Coosa river. so that the valuable
C "osa c raGt telJ, ga" " be cd VOWED
c Tbo Gahaha roa fields are also to be-
+ dov.Innrd and 300 cars are now he.
|. n'G Inn, at Anni.ton. equipped wit
o air brakes 10 carry the coal from that
c t tn,d ~ a. the Northern Alabamq
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